THE INTERNATIONAL JUGGLERSʼ ASSOCIATION December 2012 IJA eNewsletter editor Don Lewis (email: [email protected]) Renew at http:www.juggle.org/renew H A P P Y H OLIDAYS ! IJA eNewsletter IJA Festival Bowling Green, Ohio July 15 - 21, 2013 Register now! The deadline to get the new Contents: lower pricing is fast IJA Festival Registration Open approaching: January 20. Bowling Green IJA Fest Update Whatʼs New at eJuggle Fest info and registration: Change Happens 2011 Festival DVD Available http://www.juggle.org/festival Turbo Fest 2013 Juggling Festivals Our host city in Ohio is about 25 miles south of Toledo, 80 miles south of Detroit, and 120 miles west of Cleveland. Special guests include: Jeton the Gentleman Juggler, Svetlana Zueva from Kiev, and more to be announced soon.... The 2013 IJA fest at BGSU brings you: • inexpensive dorm rooms at BGSU (or hotels just off campus) • camping on the BGSU campus, to save even more money • on-campus parking for only $1/day • new lower Holiday pricing if you register by January 20 • free Wi-Fi on most of the campus • New Open Stage Juggling Festivals: • Jugglers Parade and Busking Competition and much more ... Quebec, QC Brno, Czech Republic Two Special Workshops Aalborg, Denmark Act Creation Workshop with Steven Ragatz Victoria, BC • Madison, WI • Juggling Tricks: Start to Finish with Jay Gilligan Atlanta, GA St. Paul, MN Austin, TX IJA History Lounge Lehighton, PA Exhibits in the IJA History Lounge will be provided by Paul Bachman and Arcata, CA Boras, Sweden David Cain. Donʼt miss this museum quality exhibit of our juggling history! North Yorkshire, UK Lisbon, IA Reserve your dorm rooms, camping spaces, Bowling Green, OH (IJA) optional dining hall meals, and parking permits via the IJA with your festival registration: http://www.juggle.org/festival WWW.JUGGLE.ORG Page 1 THE INTERNATIONAL JUGGLERSʼ ASSOCIATION December 2012 Bowling Green 2013 Update, by Kim Laird Have You Registered? act, from initial inspiration to the debut of a performance- ready product. Each class consists of an introductory Registration opened about 2 weeks later than I anticipated discussion, followed by hands-on exercises. After each but it is up and people are registering. Have you registered for exercise session, students are expected to provide feedback the 2013 fest yet? The new Holiday Pricing ends January 20, on the progress of others as well as demonstrating the 2013. After that date the prices go up to the usual Early Bird improvements in their own presentations. There may be prices. Take advantage of the new lower pricing while you still homework for later classes! have the chance. “Students who complete the workshop will depart with new Getting to the campus of BGSU from the airport takes a little material as well as concrete tools to continue building their more thought this year than in previous years. There are two juggling performances.” car/van services listed on the IJA website at http:// www.juggle.org/ija/festival/?page_id=62&preview=true. A Stevenʼs workshop is open to jugglers who havenʼt begun forum will be set up for room and ride share as we usually do. writing an act and wonder where to start, to jugglers in the That forum will be particularly important for getting to and midst of the creation process and to jugglers who wish to from the airports because sharing the ride cuts down the per- further develop an already formed act. person price significantly. So, connect with some fellow The second special workshop is being offered by the ever jugglers and share a ride or rent a car. That will be the best inventive Jay Gilligan. Juggling Tricks: Start to Finish is plan for getting to BGSU if youʼre flying into Detroit. If you being offered Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 1-4pm. drive, on-campus parking is very cheap at only $1/day. Jugglers of any skill level, from beginner to expert, are invited There will be a few surprises for festival goers when they to join this special workshop which examines how a trick is receive their registration packets this year. Iʼm not going to created and perfected. The class divides juggling into three give away the surprises but I will tell you I have read through continued on next page ... all of the fest surveys from the past three years. One complaint about registration was that some shirt sizes were I’m going to out by the time the person got to pick up their shirt. Listening the IJA at to that complaint, I have decided to include your shirt inside Bowling Green your festival registration packet. This way, the size you State University ordered will be there for you. Any packets not picked up by July 15-21, 2013! Saturday at noon will have the shirt released for general sale. Laura Ernst has updated the description and rules for the Busker Competition. She and I spoke by phone to discuss ideas and the plan for the fest (logistics of time and places). What are you She is finalizing these things now and putting together the doing version to be published before the end of this month. Watch next summer? the eNewsletter and eJuggle for the Busker Competition Rules and new aspects of the event! We hope to see a lot of buskers enter this second year of this competition. Keith Nelson has confirmed two performers for the Cascade of Stars show. Jeton the Gentleman Juggler will come to us from Frankfurt, Germany. Svetlana Zueva will visit the IJA from Kiev in the Ukraine. After January more acts will be announced as they are confirmed. Things you need to know if you are coming to the Show tickets will be printed through a company this year. IJA fest 2013 at Bowling Green State University, OH They are fairly inexpensive and much more professional ! If you are... looking than the computer generated tickets we have been producing. We will begin the local sale of show tickets !! *going to stay in the dorms approximately 4 to 6 weeks prior to the IJA arriving in town. !! *planning on camping on campus (very limited) Due to the presale of show tickets I feel we need a more professional looking ticket. So, look for a great new look to !! *going to purchase a campus parking permit the show tickets this year! !! *eating your meals on campus There are two special workshops this year. The first is being offered by the illustrious Steven Ragatz. Act Creation it is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED Workshop with Steven Ragatz is being offered Tuesday, you pre-register for the fest! Wednesday and Thursday 10am-12:30pm. According to Hotels are also located nearby as well as great restaurants. Steven, “Your juggling act should be more than merely a collection of tricks executed in sequence. This workshop Watch your email, the IJA eNewsletter, eJUGGLE, and the explores the design and execution of a contemporary juggling IJA website for the most up-to-date information! WWW.JUGGLE.ORG Page 2 THE INTERNATIONAL JUGGLERSʼ ASSOCIATION December 2012 Festival Update,continued from previous page. main categories: object, body, and rhythm. Jay shares, “Hands-on exercises will explore in depth many of the concepts hinted at in my Juggle magazine articles over the years. We will learn simple moves which can be applied to any style and level of technique. Many different ways to create tricks will be introduced, with special attention given to building a proper traditional skill base. Students will leave with a deeper understanding of how tricks evolve, the latest practice theories, and where juggling might go in the future.” The Bowling Green Convention and Visitorsʼ Bureau purchased a rather large banner with the IJA and Bowling Green logos announcing the arrival of the IJA this July. They used it to lead the jugglers from BGSU in the Holiday Parade. That segment was replayed on several different news station as well! They plan on using the sign and the BGSU jugglers at several other town events throughout the beginning of 2013. This shows the town is getting excited about the 2013 IJA Jugglersʼ Festival! Are you?! Remember, Holiday Pricing ends January 20 after which prices go up. Jay Gilligan 2013 IJA Festival Special Workshops by: Steven Ragatz Jay Gilligan Steven Ragatz WWW.JUGGLE.ORG Page 3 THE INTERNATIONAL JUGGLERSʼ ASSOCIATION December 2012 On November 14, 2012, the national Brazilian juggling and circus convention hosted the first ever IJA Regional Competition (IRC) in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Jugglers from Brazil, Chile, and Peru showed up to compete for the title of IRC Champion. On January 2, 2013, a 45 minute video of the full competition will be released to IJA members through eJuggle. Latest Articles in eJuggle eJuggle already has a lot of content — more than you would expect to find in a printed magazine. And you find new content more often. Here is a partial list of recently added content. Use the link to eJuggle to see new content, and log in to access content that is just available to IJA members. http://e.juggle.org Juggler’s Scoop – December 20th, 2012 Nathan Wakefield Karamazov shuffle and variations Aidan Burns Natooke Fixed Gear Bike & Juggling Shop Ted Baumhauer St Louis Festival Review and Poem festreviewer Be Funnier with Scotty Meltzer: More Corporate Comedy Scotty Meltzer Interact! Combination Trick Creativity Scott Seltzer Juggler’s Scoop – December 5th, 2012 Nathan Wakefield IJA 2013 Festival Pre-Registration Is OPEN!!! Kim Laird A Message from the Chair, November 2012 Dave Pawson Creating a Juggling Combination Trick David Cain Brad Weston’s Stagecraft: Costumer Brad Weston A convention in Brazil: How is it like? (14th CBMC review) The Historical Juggling Props Collection and Exhibit David Cain Cleveland Circus Review festreviewer Tricks of the Month- November 2012- w/ Kyle Johnson Kyle Johnson 2013 IJA Festival Registration Info.